THE next instalment of the “Tomorrow, When the War Began” films might be dead in the water, but producers have not given up on the franchise just yet.

Ambience Entertainment, which created the film version of John Marsden’s popular books, has just sent out casting notices for a TV version.

The casting notices call for teenagers to play the seven key roles (film actors pictured).

Casting consultancy Mullinars is handling the casting, with the film to be directed by Brendan Maher.

This is great news, especially following our last post almost 2 years ago when it seemed like there wasn’t going to be any sort of sequel. Who’s excited?!

Have you finished Tomorrow When the War Began 2?
No, no. That all fell apart unfortunately.

It’s not going to happen at all?
No, no. I had the outlines written for 2 and 3 actually. I really, really wanted to do them but the company that made them kind of fell apart. They made a film after ours that they lost an insane amount of money on.

But that happens. Don’t rights get sold?
Yeah, but the cast is now five years older. I’d want to do it with them and I wouldn’t want to do it without them. So as far as I know it’s not happening. It’s certainly not going to happen with me.

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Not the best news. Hope will always remain though. Please let us know what you think of all this below in the comments section.

Its planned sequels to Tomorrow When The War Began appear to have been placed on hold indefinitely.

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Not the best news for Tomorrow fans, but I believe the key word here is “appear”. This doesn’t seem completely conclusive. I have faith!

Darcy-Smith has completed the screenplay of the sequel to Tomorrow, When the War Began, based on the second and third of John Marsden’s novels, for producer Andrew Mason and OmniLab Media, but he won’t direct that film.

Good news!

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NEW life has been breathed into the sequel to the surprisingly successful Aussie blockbuster Tomorrow When The War Began with producers promising cameras will roll early next year.

Considered dead in the water 12 months ago, Tomorrow When The War Began 2 – based on a series of books by John Marsden – is still searching for a director after the original auteur Stuart Beattie dropped out.

But executive producer Matthew Street said a “great screenplay” exists and that production would eventually begin.

“(The sequel) is certainly not dead,” Street said yesterday.

He said Aussie actor Kieran Darcy-Smith had written a “great screenplay” based on Marsden’s original book series. The news has come as a surprise to the cast however, with starlet Phoebe Tonkin saying she had not heard about plans for the project.

“I would have loved to have done a sequel but I don’t think it’s going to happen,” she said.

“A bit of time has passed now.

“I don’t think there will be one, or at least not with the original cast – which probably is a shame.

“But that could always change, you never know.”

Her doubts echoed sentiments shared earlier by co-star Caitlin Stasey, who said she feared the original cast of the movie would be too old to play the teenage characters in the original by the time a sequel came about.

Source: The Daily Telegraph – “Pledge on film sequel”

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You have 10 minutes before soldiers get to you and take control of the area; the clock is ticking. If you stay, you’ll be thrown into a prison camp. If you leave with your friend, your survival (in the middle of dense bushland) is up to you.

Which 5 items in your home would you take with you in order to survive?

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